draining

Hey everyone, I'm looking for something digital that's accurate and can test as much as possible (mainly caring about free chlorine, total chlorine, ph, alkalinity, cyanuric acid, and calcium hardness). I have the hardest time with test strips and color matching. It's difficult knowing which...

To begin with, we have a somewhat rigged set up for our inground pool filter. The underground pipe from the sand filter that sends the filtered water back into the pool is broken. Rather than breaking up the concrete to replace it, we have it rigged with a large hose that leads from the filter...

I am taking over a pool on a new house that I just bought. Still waiting for my test kit to see just what the water looks like from the items I can test, but regardless of what I get from the test I've been mulling over doing a water exchange just so I can start with a clean-ish slate. My pool...

Hi-- this is my first major storm as an AGP owner! I may or may not be appropriately worried... Thank you in advance for any and all advice! :LOL: I read through @SuzfromTexas 's guidance in Preparation for hurricane/tropical storm, and I can't quite understand some of the instructions. There's...

Hi, My name is Theresa. I am new to this forum. I'm very frustrated. Well, so is my husband. We've had an in-ground pool for 18 years. The past couple of years it has been getting harder and harder to get it clean and clear. This year we are actually thinking of draining it completely, cleaning...

Hi friendly, informative pool people! Newbie here going through my first CYA battle...and the CYA is winning. Initially my readings were 100+ (so who knows exactly what the ppm was). So, I drained about 13 inches down about 6 times now over the last 3 days; I've heard too many fiberglass shell...

We're closing on a house with a pool that a pool company has maintained for about a year. The pool company has just informed us that the CYA levels are much too high and are locked, and we need to drain the pool completely, pressure the sides of the pool and refill to (hopefully) allow us to get...